Antti J. Huhtala wrote: >> > The GUI approach is to go to System->Administration->Network and edit >> > the nicknames of NICs. In my case I changed "eth0.bak" to "lan" and >> > "eth1.bak" to "wan" because my eth0 card is connected to local network >> > and eth1 card to the Internet. >> >> As a matter of interest, where did you read that you could make >> changes like this? ... >> Or was it just by experiment? >> > Yes. Noting that the GUI window stated my eth1 nickname was eth1.bak > although I don't remember having seen that nickname before, I just > started experimenting. First nicknaming eth0 to "lan" brought eth0 > connection to life at next boot, and then eth1 to "wan" brought internet > connection to life at the next. > Afterwards I realized there were no ifcfg-eth0 or ifcfg-eth1 files > in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. They apparently had been named to > "ethx.bak" by new kernel or one of the updated packages with it. That is more or less my experience. system-config-network (or its GUI entries) seems to edit and re-name files for no reason that I can see. But I'm surprised that you can rename the interfaces as you wish, eg in your case to lan and wan. I would have thought this would confuse udev. Maybe system-config-network is cleverer than I gave it credit for ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
